Combination-tool



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J. N. PARKER.

GOMBINATIGN- TUOL. l No.. 495,055. Patente Apr. 11, 1893.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

JQHN N. PARKER, OF COLDWATER, MICHIGAN.

'1 COMBlNATION-TOOL.

SPECIFICATION forming part'of Letters Patent No. 495,055, dated April11, 1893.

Application led January 25, 1893.

To all whom t may concern.-

Be it known that I,`JoHN N. PARKER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Coldwater, in the county of Branch and State of Michigan,have invented a new and useful Combination-Tool, of which the followingis a specification.

Myinvention relates toa new and improved combination tool; the objectsin view being to produce a tool adapted to serve the useful functions ofa wrench, hammer, screw-driver, a brace for operating upon a handscrewdriver, or holding-bits, and also as a tackdrawer or nail-puller.

With these and other objects in View the invention consists in certainfeatures of construction hereinafter specilied and particularly pointedout in the claims.

Referring to the drawings-Figure 1 is a perspective View of acombination tool embodying my invention, the same being adapted to serveas a brace. Fig. 2 is an elevation of the tool, the same being inposition to serve as a wrench, a portion of the handle being broken awayto illustrate the connection between the wrench-stock and handle. Fig. 3is a perspective view, the tool being adapted to serve as a screw-driverand to be operated by the brace. Fig. 4 is a detail of the screwdriverspindle.

Like numerals indicate like parts in all the figures of the drawings.

1 designates theshank, upon which is mountedahandle 2, adapted to aord asuitable and convenient grip for the hand of the operator. The shank 1,below the handle is provided with a fixed collar or boss 3, and beyondthe same is extended to form a screw drivingblade 4. At its juncturewith the collar 3, the blade is reduced at opposite sides and at oneedge as indicated at 5, whereby it is substantially V- shaped in crosssection. The upper half or portion of the shank 1, is provided with alongitudinal slot 6, or in other words, the said shank is bifurcated atits upper end, which extends above the handle 2, anda set screw 7,projects through the perforations formed in the bifurcations, one ofwhich perforations is threaded, whereby as will be obvious, by arotation of the screw the Serial No. 459|707. CNO modeLl bifurcationsmay be clamped upon an interposed object.

S designates a wrench-stock, the same being preferably rectangular incross-section, and having its lower end reduced at opposite sides, thusforming a tenon 9, adapted to iit loosely between, and to be clampedwhen desired by, the bifurcations 6, of the shank 1. The tenon 9, isprovided with a longitudinal slot 10 through which the set-screw 7,passes. The outer end of the stock 8, is provided with a iixed head 11,whose rear face is extended beyond the stock and beyond the sliding headto form a hammer 12. A sliding` head 13 is mounted on the stock 8, andit and the head 11 are extended to form respectively the movable andfixed jaws 14. A bracket 16 is mounted on the stock S near its lowerend, and in this bracket is journaled the lower end of a threadedfeed-rod 17, having at its lower end a thumb-piece, and its upper endthreaded through a movable jaw and bearing against the under side of thefixed jaw, all as usual.

1S designates a curved brace-arm, having at one end aswiveled handle 19,and its opposite end shaped to constitute a tack or nailpuller 20, andadapted also to tit over and snugly receive the reduced V-shaped portion5 of thescrew driver-blade et. This completes the construction of thedevice and I will now proceed to describe the manner of using the same.

As shown in Fig. 2, it will be seen that the device is adapted to serveas an ordinary wrench. In this instance it will also be observed thatthe stock 8, is now rigid with the handle and shank. Such isaccomplished by a loosening of the screw 7, a withdrawal of the stock asfar as the slot 10 will permit, a reinsertion of the lower end of thestock into the handle and bifurcations of the shank and a retighteningof the screw 7. By wholly detaching the handle a convenient screw driverfor operating upon small screws in soft wood is produced, the wrenchportion being then dispensed with. If the screw be large, the wood behard, or it is desired to exercise more than the ordinary strength uponthe screw, the brace arm 18 is employed as shown in Fig.

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3. In such instance, the claw 2O is fitted over the V-shaped portion ofthe shank of the driver, and said brace employed as a lever in a mannerthat will be obvious. It will also be seen that this brace arm may beemployed separately as an ordinary tack drawer or nailpuller.

For the purposey of employing the device as a brace, the jaws 14 areprovided upon their ad.)l acent faces with V-shaped grooves 2l,whichgrooves will also serve for holding the corners of nuts of axles whenthe wrench is employed as a carriage wrench during the oiling ofbearings, and by clamping the jaws tight upon the nut, there will be nonecessity of handling the nut and soiling the hands. In alike manner, asbefore stated, the grooves will receive and retain the ordinarybit-shank. In such instance, the parts are given the positions in whichthey are illustrated in Fig. l of the drawings, by which figure it willbe seen that the set screw 7 has been loosened so that the stock 8 mightbe drawn out from the handle, swung at a'right-angle thereto, and thescrew tightened; the brace arm now has its claw 2O introduced over theV-shaped or reduced portion of the screw driver, and thus the brace iscomplete.

The operation of the brace being precisely the same as the braceordinarily used, the same will require no specific description.v Bothjaws may have the inner ends of their grooves terminate in cavities 22whereby a wire-nail clamped thereinbetween and its head received, thesaid nail will be adapted to serve as an awl.

From the foregoing description in connection with the accompanyingdrawings it will be seen that I have provided a very convenient, simpledevice which contains, and is capable of serving, as a hammer, a wrench,a hand and brace-operated screw-driver, a nail and tack puller and abrace for operating boring-tools.

Having described my invention, what I claim isl. In a combination-tool,the combination with a wrench-stock, of a handle, devices for securingthe handle upon the end of the stock either in line with or at an anglethereto, and a brace-arm removably connected with the opposite end ofthe handle, substantially as specified. 7

2. In a combination-tool, the combination with a wrench-stock, a handleterminating at one end in a screw-driver and provided at opposite sidesand at one edge with a reducedportion, devices for securing the handlein line with, or at an angle to the stock, and the brace-arm having theswiveled head at one end and its opposite end shaped to form a clawremovably engaging the said reducedportion of the shank of thescrew-driver, substantially as specied.

3. In a combination-tool, thev combination with the Wrench-stock, of thehandle provided at one end with a screw drivin g-blade, devices forremovably connecting the opposite end of the handle either in line with,or at an angle to, the end of the stock, and the curved bracearm havinga handle atone end and its opposite end bifurcated to engage with thescrew driver-blade, substantially as specified.

4. In a combination-tool, the combination with the stock having areduced lower end provided with a longitudinal slot, of a shankbifurcated at one endto receive said end of the stock and at itsopposite end terminating in a screw driving-blade, provided with a shankV-shaped in cross-section, a hollow handle mounted on the shank andterminating short of the ends thereof, a binding-screw passed throughthe bifurcations of the shank and slot of the stock, and the curvedbracearm having the swiveled head at one end, and its opposite endprovided with a claw for engaging the V-shaped portion of the blade,substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixedmy signature in the presence of two witnesses.

JOHN N. PARKER. Witnesses: l

N. BALDWIN, CHAs. F. HoWE.

